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Rochester council authorizes final contract work to move city and utility to single SAP-based ERP platform

6490187 · October 21, 2025
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Summary

Council authorized staff to finalize an agreement with HCL (implementer) and SAP (software) to replace aging on-premises enterprise systems for the city and Rochester Public Utilities, with staff estimating a multi-year implementation and higher near-term costs than budgeted.

The Rochester City Council authorized staff on Oct. 20 to finalize an agreement with HCL and SAP to implement a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for the city and Rochester Public Utilities (RPU).

City administrators described the measure as the first of two major decisions in a long replacement process that would move many city and utility functions from disparate, aging on-premises systems to a cloud-based SAP solution. City Administrator Aaron Parrish and RPU General Manager Tim McCullough said the replacement is…

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